<> "The repository administrator has not yet configured an RDF license."^^ . <> . . . "Asian-Pacific Weed Science Society: A Glimpse of the Past 50 Years and Perspectives"^^ . "Since the mid-1940s, exciting discoveries of new herbicides led to noticeable improvements in weed\r\ncontrol in many crops over the following two decades, leading to yield increases. However, the optimism\r\nof achieving weed control through herbicides alone was short-lived. The harmful effects caused by an\r\noveruse of chemicals were felt through the 1950s, igniting the need for ecological thinking to understand\r\nweeds prior to their control. This is why Weed Science took an important change in direction in the\r\nlate-1950s to encompass studies of weed biology and, ecology - to anchor the evolving discipline in a\r\nbroader agro-ecological context. As the World’s population increased dramatically in the 1960s, in the\r\nAsian-Pacific region, there was a deeply-felt need to improve weed control to increase food production.\r\nIn 1967, the Asian-Pacific Weed Science Society (APWSS) was born to promote an exchange of ideas on\r\nweed control across the region, including the use of herbicides. The period of ecological enlightenment \r\n(1960 to 1975) led to weeds being understood as ‘colonizing species’. Colonizing species opportunistically \r\ncapture resources created by habitat disturbances caused naturally, or by human activities. \r\nThe placement of weed studies within this ecological framework broadened the discipline to include \r\nsustainable weed control practices promoted through the vehicle of Integrated Weed Management (IWM). \r\nAs a result, discourses in Weed Science, including those at the APWSS, from around the late-1980s, \r\nexpanded to cover biological and ecological aspects of weeds, as well as mechanisms of crop-weed interactions \r\n(i.e. competition, allelopathy, and critical weed-free periods). This trend has continued in recent decades, \r\ncausing a paradigm shift - from herbicide dominated weed control to Weed Science. In more recent times, \r\nresearch in the Asian-Pacific region has focused on reducing a dependence on\r\nherbicides, in favour of integrated weed management (IWM). Management of herbicide resistance\r\nin weeds; understanding the potential impacts of climate change and genetically-modified organisms\r\n(GMOs) in agriculture; and special weed problems, such as weedy rice, dominate the APWSS research\r\nagenda. Reducing conflicts between weeds and men, through a recognition of the redeeming value of\r\nweeds and utilization of weeds as bio-resources are also emerging as topics of interest. In our time, when\r\nthe need to increase the output of food for the rising population of the world is acutely felt, and interlinked\r\nhuman impacts on the globe are accelerating, the scope of Weed Science cannot but expand. The major\r\nchallenges humans face in this second decade of the 21st Century will encourage us to deeply reflect on\r\nour relationship with weeds. We hope that Weed Science will help us learn from weeds that ‘co-existence’\r\nand austerity are virtues for the future survival of our species."^^ . "2017" . . . "Asian-Pacific Weed Science Society (APWSS)"^^ . . "Asian-Pacific Weed Science Society (APWSS)"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "N R"^^ . "Chandrasena"^^ . "N R Chandrasena"^^ . . "A N"^^ . "Rao"^^ . "A N Rao"^^ . . . . . . "Asian-Pacific Weed Science Society: A Glimpse of the Past 50 Years and Perspectives (PDF)"^^ . . . . . "Nimal and Rao 2017 Chapter 1.pdf"^^ . . . "Asian-Pacific Weed Science Society: A Glimpse of the Past 50 Years and Perspectives (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "indexcodes.txt"^^ . . . "Asian-Pacific Weed Science Society: A Glimpse of the Past 50 Years and Perspectives (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "lightbox.jpg"^^ . . . "Asian-Pacific Weed Science Society: A Glimpse of the Past 50 Years and Perspectives (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "preview.jpg"^^ . . . "Asian-Pacific Weed Science Society: A Glimpse of the Past 50 Years and Perspectives (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "medium.jpg"^^ . . . "Asian-Pacific Weed Science Society: A Glimpse of the Past 50 Years and Perspectives (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "small.jpg"^^ . . "HTML Summary of #10344 \n\nAsian-Pacific Weed Science Society: A Glimpse of the Past 50 Years and Perspectives\n\n" . "text/html" . . . "Agriculture"@en . . . "Weed Science"@en . . . "Asia"@en . .